MentalEdge

I use matrix.

I run an instance for myself an immediate family. I also federate with other instances to participate in some dev groups.

The most active matrix space I’m in, is the one hosted by ani.social. Daily activity on anime-related topics, and also fediverse, lemmy and software.

If you want to try it, the main “matrix.org” instance is far from easy to recommend though. Finding good public matrix instances is a challenge. As such the best way is probably to either host one yourself or know someone who does.

They are out there, though. I’ve seen people be happy with pikaviestin.fi, but that’s only for finnish people. Mozilla also has an instance, though I’ve no experience on it.

Chugging along: !skg@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Yes. They both have free speech.

If you can use your words to have them burned alive, so can they.

Do you realize that number 4 is just flushing your sinuses, but badly?

When done correctly, you match the salt content of the water with your body to avoid drying out the skin inside your sinuses, allowing you to SAFELY pour in water through one nostril, and out the other. Rinsing out mucus and pollen particles alike.

It is insanely relieving, but the effect is very temporary.

What you’re suggesting is just barbaric.

I snort anti-histamines.

I’m only half joking. Pills did nothing for me.

But nasal sprays and eye drops give almost immediate relief. When it’s particularly bad I will ask the pharmacists for two types, as “doubling up” on different active ingredients can allow for increased potency. Though that is something you should absolutely ask the pharmacist for a recommendation on, as combining any two isn’t necesserily effective, or safe.

If pills work for you, but don’t quite get it done, you can combine those with drops/spray too. Again, consult a pharmacist. Just tell them what you’ve tried, and ask for a recommendation on how to get a bit more potency.

For me, stuff that you apply directly is so much more potent, and I only tried it because a pharmacist recommended it when I said none of the pills seem to help me. It was night and day.

With the nose, it’s a little tricky if it has already become stuffed. Try to clear out as much as possible, before using the spray, then let it sit for as long as you can bear. Once it starts taking effect, you really want to keep using the spray before your nose starts reacting, so it actually reaches the mucus membranes, and doesn’t just hit mucus, only to be blown back out.

If you can clear out your nose by flushing your sinuses first, even better.

Another bonus of taking anti histamines this way is that it doesn’t make you as drowsy, as it’s applied much more locally. Though this varies. Some of the antihistamine in drops and nasal spray will still make it into the blood stream.

Except cigarettes are a state-run monopoly over there.

The main reason things are going so slowly is that they can’t bring themselves to stop making so much money.

The same institution that’s supposed to promote the facts about the health-risks of smoking is the one making stupid amounts of money making and selling it.

If they ever stop, it’ll be because they transition to other nicotine products, or shift to exporting the product to developing countries (which they already are).

That’s “udi”, actually.

It’s just a rating. All cells are rated for some given amount of amps, but you can actually exceed that rating in bursts.

So I’m jokingly pointing out that you can theoretically pull as many watts as you want.

You can turn a MWh of energy into a GW of power, as long as you compress it into a short enough duration.

The battery (or any part of the circuit) just won’t survive the event :D

Oh, sorry.

Come to think of it, you can actually pull 930 gigawatts from any battery. Just not for very long.

Does that solve the problem?

Batteries don’t come in MW, GW, or even W. That’s a measure of power. As in how fast it is being created or consumed.

Batteries don’t create or consume power, they store it.

That is measured in Wh, MWh, or GWh.

I cannot fucking wait for Control 2.

Remedy’s (!remedy@sopuli.xyz) recent games have ton of “every frame a painting” in them. I’m praying so hard their new CEO doesn’t mess it all up, but I am not hopeful.

there is approximately that same % chance of them exploiting that power

I think that’s a partially false equivalence. Acting on those feelings would require that you be OK with harming another person, and a child, no less. Most people aren’t. The overlap comes from the fact that the rich and powerful often are, because that’s how they got rich a powerful.

But the same way a normal person can be attracted to adults, but have no desire to rape, most pedofiles will have no desire to hurt anyone. (That, not the law, is why I think it’s so rare).

Not hurting anyone and respecting consent is the easiest thing ever. Have you ever be so horny you’d fail at those things? I haven’t. And I am a VERY horny person.

Nothing about pedofilia changes that part of how human self-determination works.

You only get the worst of the worst when the type of person that would rape, overlaps with pedofilia. The ones that act on it, DO choose. They are the literal worst among us.

them being in the DMs of their favorite video game creators.

THE most dangerous part of Roblox. The child dev studios led by adults are fucking horrifying. “Developers” becoming well-known Roblox game creators has given credibility to some absolutely horrible people to be around kids in ways that should never have been allowed.

And Roblox basically enables it with their Roblox -> Private Discord integration.

Because these child-labour powered “dev studios” is how they get their freaking games!

It’s really just a digital way to do the equivalent of printing the document, signing it, and scanning it again. Which is also accepted in a lot of situations.

The visual signature part of a “digital signature” is purely cosmetic. The actual signature is the entire file being cryptographically signed using a private key you possess, which any recipient can then verify came from you by using a public key.

This is the case for all government issue signatures (like when using the private key inside a chipped government id card) or any other signature created using a key pair from an issuing authority.

If its not a digital signature in this way, the other way is literally just an image. It can be a vector or an raster, or a straight up scan of a physically signed document. It’s just a picture. It has no digital verification whatsoever.

No-one is claiming linux is perfect.

What I do have a problem with is the idea that we should all act like it will explode in our faces.

For the vast majority of users it won’t.

It’s not even that vague.

Valve basically said: “we are not doing anything illegal”.

To which mastercard responded: “yeah but you’re making us look bad, so tough”.